Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE I.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE WORK, 1931.
Nature of Work. | Centres. | Totals. | ||||||
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No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3 and Sub-Centre. | ||||||
Number of cessions held | 199 | 117 | 83 | 399 | ||||
„ ante natal sessions held | 51 | 26 | 23 | 100 | ||||
Number of individual Mothers seen by Doctor | ||||||||
Ante-natal, New cases | 186 | 92 | 76 | 354 | ||||
,, Old cases | 438 | 223 | 115 | 776 | ||||
Post natal. New cases | 84 | 30 | 5 | 119 | ||||
„ Old cases | 37 | 7 | 1 | 45 | ||||
745 | 352 | 197 | 1,294 | |||||
Total attendances of Mothers | 1,125 | 447 | 198 | 1,770 | ||||
Number of babies attending Centres for first time: Under 1 year | 300 | 203 | 168 | 671 | ||||
1—5 years | 63 | 41 | 61 | 165 | ||||
Number of individual babies on Centre registers | 873 | 490 | 510 | 1,873 | ||||
Attendances of babies at medical consultations | 3,532 | 2,169 | 1,291 | 6,992 | ||||
Babies seen by Doctor | 2,457 | 1,551 | 1,064 | 5,072 | ||||
Total attendances of babies at Centres : Under 1 year | 4,964 | 2,838 | 1,846 | 9,648 | ||||
1 5 years | 3,132 | 1,677 | 1,005 | 5,814 | ||||
Referred to own private doctors | 24 | 24 | 10 | 58 | ||||
Referred to hospitals | 109 | 43 | 10 | 162 | ||||
Health talks given by nurses | _ | 31 | 15 | 46 | ||||
Grand Totals | ||||||||
Visits paid by nurses: — | First | Total visit | First | Total | First | Total | First Visits | Totals visits |
To expectant mothers | 94 | 185 | 55 | 107 | 53 | 95 | 202 | 387 |
To infants under one year | 521 | 2,685 | 290 | 1,506 | 308 | 1,140 | 1,119 | 5,331 |
To children aged 1-5 years | 73 | 3,599 | 42 | 1,835 | 70 | 1,435 | 185 | 6,869 |
Total visits paid by Nurses | 688 | 6,469 | 387 | 3,448 | 431 | 2,670 | 1,506 | 12,587 |
CHILDREN ACT, 1908— Visits paid to Foster Children | 18 | 81 | 9 | 86 | 11 | 70 | 38 | 237 |
RECORD OF WORK OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIFE, 1931.
Confinements attended | 145 |
Ante-natal Clinics attended | 77 |
do. visits | 446 |
Post-natal visits | 1,963 |